As more foreign-borne illnesses enter the U.S., such as the two patients with Ebola who were treated at Emory University Hospital and confirmed cases of mosquito-carried Dengue fever, new infection control protocols are top of mind for U.S. hospitals. 

Violent incidents involving hospital workers have increased nearly 40 percent in the last three years, according to the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety.

  Rural Liberian healthcare workers have never had enough rubber gloves. Caring for patients with bare hands is a common practice, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Tarrant County Public Health confirmed the first imported case of chikungunya virus disease in the county.

Minimally invasive surgery is significantly associated with reduced odds of surgical site infections, according to a study in JAMA Surgery.

  The following are the most popular stories on infection control and clinical quality from Becker's Hospital Review fore the week of August 18, starting with the most-accessed.

The cold and other infections can temporarily increase the risk of stroke in children, according to a new UCSF-led study.

 CMS has delayed implementation of a sepsis inpatient quality measure intended to begin Jan. 1, 2015 for fiscal year 2017 inpatient quality reporting.

Implementing targeted electronic alerts in EHRs may significantly reduce the occurrence of catheter-associated urinary tract infections, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Smaller physician practices had fewer preventable hospital admissions among Medicare beneficiaries, according to survey results published in Health Affairs.